Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] up at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All eyes were looking up at the pit lane screens as every lap , every move , was relayed on to the tube |
| 2 | one thing 's for sure the appointment of John Gorman is a popular one on the terraces … he 's given the fans what they crave for … and that 's loyalty … from first thing this morning supporters were rolling up at the County Ground to have their say |
| 3 | His stream of talk was dried up at the source . |
| 4 | But new barriers were built up at every step , so he continued to seek an opportunity to resign , if this could be done without disobedience to the will of God . |
| 5 | Our pens were collected up at the end of each session , so we never got the same pen twice , resulting in the nibs being frequently crossed . |
| 6 | Alleycat and Digger were looking up at the stars in the sky . |
| 7 | During this first period ( up to 1750 ) of relatively slow and uneven growth , trusts were set up at a rate of only eight a year and were concentrated largely around London , radiating especially to the north and west and into the Midlands . |
| 8 | In the Junior Clubman class a three nation battle was set up at the very start between Hillsborough 's Richard Lyons , Dublin 's John Grandon and Glasgow 's Craig Murray . |
| 9 | In 1988 a Franco-German research programme for the preservation of historic monuments was set up at the fifty-second summit meeting between the two countries . |
| 10 | The judge was summing up at the end of the Old Bailey trial of PC Peter Anderson , 41 , based at Surbiton police station in Surrey , who is accused of raping the woman on 4 April last year . |
| 11 | The girl was staring up at the two of us , wondering what was going on . |
| 12 | Interest in recycling was stirred up at a free seminar organised by ICI 's plastics environmental affairs group . |
| 13 | Pylon inquiry : inspectors explain how the hearing will be conducted Guidelines on how the pylons public inquiry would be run in North Yorkshire were drawn up at a meeting in Northallerton this week . |
| 14 | When we reached the hospital , four cars and a Land Rover were drawn up at the bungalow . |
| 15 | Hasan was sitting up at the table , eating a large slice of toast . |
| 16 | Security was stepped up at the city 's Fiumicino international airport . |
| 17 | Carrie was eager to tell her mother how business was picking up at the dining rooms but she was interrupted by footsteps on the stairs outside and a key being inserted in the lock . |
| 18 | The scheme was carried out by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration ( AAA ) and the committees were set up at a local level with farmer representatives from the various areas of production , such as wheat , cotton , dairy produce , rice and tobacco . |
| 19 | Organization at the grassroots level was clearly the most urgent need in order to reach remote starving villages , yet in Tsaritsyn as in other gubernii no local relief committees were set up at the uezd and volost' levels until October 1921 , that is , over two months after the formation of the guberniia committee . |
| 20 | This was first suspected in 1878 , when a row of electric lights was put up at a hotel in New York . |
| 21 | Lawrence had been drafted into the lineup following a finger injury suffered by Chris Lewis , while Botham was called up at the 11th hour to win his 100th cap when Derek Pringle 's sore back failed to respond to treatment . |
| 22 | An emissary from London to St Petersburg was picked up at the imperial frontier and a large number of compromising letters fell into the hands of tsarist investigators . |
| 23 | The phone was picked up at the other end and Charles pressed his two p into the coinbox . |
| 24 | MP Jim Wallace made his appeal for such an inquiry on the floor of the House of Commons ; and when the topic was brought up at the Scottish Liberal Democrats Conference , he was supported by Judy Steel , wife of the former leader of the Liberal Party , and herself one of the first ever Reporters to a Children 's Panel when the system began in 1971 . |
| 25 | A pilot course to teach community interpreter training techniques was set up at the Polytechnic of Central London last year . |
| 26 | In June 1991 , a draft welfare charter was drawn up at the University of Witwatersrand recommending that ‘ free and compulsory education until the age of 16 be introduced ’ . |
| 27 | there 's just five days to go to the start of the new football season … it 's the big kick-off this Saturday … and both Swindon and Oxford were warming up at the weekend |
| 28 | there 's just five days to go to the start of the new football season … it 's the big kick-off this Saturday … and both Swindon and Oxford were warming up at the weekend |
| 29 | It did n't smash , but its beams were cast up at the ceiling , throwing a gauzy light down on the room below . |
| 30 | Even Trepper was captured and the Rote Kapelle was wound up at the end of 1942 . |